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TIL In perfecting the design of their first aircraft, the Wright Brothers built and tested prototypes inside of a Wind Tunnel – to which they credited the bulk of their aircraft’s success.

by whatilearned January 21, 2023, 11:47 pm

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TIL about Ralph C Smith, the US’ last surviving WWII General, who passed away in 1998 aged 104. Not only was he the 13th person to receive a pilot’s license, he was also instructed by Orville Wright.

by whatilearned January 21, 2023, 11:41 pm

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TIL that in 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote and published a 50,000 word novel, ‘Gadsby’ which does not contain the letter ‘e’ . A warehouse containing most copies of the book burned down.

by whatilearned November 26, 2022, 3:59 pm

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TIL Orville Wright lived to see jets and the first supersonic flight

by whatilearned November 24, 2022, 1:18 am

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TIL the Wright Brothers were perpetual bachelors, and that Orville Wright disowned their sister Katherine after she married and had a family of her own, feeling he had been “betrayed”.

by whatilearned November 21, 2022, 12:15 am

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TIL SC Johnson’s offices in Racine, Wisconsin were designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright

by whatilearned October 24, 2022, 12:34 am

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TIL that according to US Middle East Specialist Edgar Wright, an unknown individual impersonated Harry Truman’s voice on the telephone and swayed the President of Haiti into voting for a motion at the UN.

by whatilearned September 27, 2022, 9:53 am

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TIL Production on ALF was tense. The set was elevated and full of trap doors constantly being reset. Due to technical issues the 30 minute show took 20 to 25 hours to shoot. One especially stressful day Max Wright attacked ALF and the two had to be separated.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 11:08 am

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TIL that only 20 years after the Wright Brothers first flight, we had successfully completed the first air to air refueling in June 1923.

by whatilearned July 10, 2022, 8:01 am

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TIL After Neil Armstrong’s death, his sons put hundreds of items they inherited from their parents on auction, pulling in $14.69 million. Neil Armstrong owned pieces of fabric from Wright Flyer, and Apollo 11 gold medal that sold for $2.04 million

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 6:32 pm

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TIL Brazilians don’t believe that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. Instead, they believe that Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumond, was the true inventor.

by whatilearned May 8, 2022, 12:40 pm

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TIL The Wright Brothers only flew together on the same flight one time, a six-minute flight on May 25th, 1910. They promised their father, Milton, they would never fly together to avoid the chance of a double tragedy and to ensure one brother would remain to continue their flight experiments.

by whatilearned May 8, 2022, 1:42 am

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